J/other/Ap/47.305 Circular polarization of starlight (Eritsian+, 2004)
Circular polarization of starlight.
Eritsian M.A.
<Astrophysics, 47, 305-312 (2004)>
=2004Ap.....47..305E 2004Ap.....47..305E
ADC_Keywords: Polarization
Keywords: stars: circular polarization
Description:
Of the 7500 stars cited in the Catalog of starlight polarization (Cat.
II/34), those which satisfy the condition P≤0.3% and AV≥0.5mag
are selected. It is presumed that the selected stars (n=216) have
circularly polarized light.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 47 215 List of stars with expected circular polarization
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See also:
II/34 : Polarization Catalogue (Mathewson+ 1978)
II/226 : Stellar polarization catalogs agglomeration (Heiles, 2000)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 A11 --- Name Star name
13- 14 I2 h RAh ? Hour of Right Ascension (B1950)
16- 19 F4.1 min RAm ? Minute of Right Ascension (B1950)
21 A1 --- DE- Sign of the Declination (B1950)
22- 23 I2 deg DEd ? Degree of Declination (B1950)
25- 26 I2 arcmin DEm ? Arcmin of Declination (B1950)
28- 31 F4.1 mag vmag Visual stellar magnitude
33- 38 A6 --- SpType MK spectral class
40- 42 F3.1 mag Av Interstellar absorption
44- 47 F4.1 mag m-M ? Distance modulus
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
In table1.dat, -58321 was corrected into HD 58321.
* 28-Nov-2005: missing star HD 31910 (319104 in the paper), added in
table1.dat; positions of HD 11960 added in table1.dat
(End) Marianne Brouty [CDS] 30-Aug-2005